FARMS Review 20/2

[_Daniel Peterson]

I’m pleased to report that FARMS Review 20/2 (2008) has come from the press.

Here’s a brief run-down of the contents:

Louis Midgley has an editor’s introduction on “Debating Evangelicals.”

Next follow the texts of the first two annual Neal A. Maxwell Lectures: Elder Cecil O. Samuelson’s “On Becoming a Disciple-Scholar” and Elder Bruce Hafen’s “Reason, Faith, and the Things of Eternity.”

A section entitled “Biblical and Mormon Studies” features reviews by Robert White and Gregory Smith of George D. Smith’s Nauvoo Polygamy, as well as a review by John Tvedtnes of a British scholar's book on the lost ark of the covenant.

This is followed by a section on “Book of Mormon” made up entirely by an essay by Brant Gardner entitled “This Idea: The ‘This Land’ Series and the U.S.-Centric Reading of the Book of Mormon.”

A section called “Mormonism and Science” features an essay by Duane Boyce (“Of Science, Scripture, and Surprise”) responding to Stephens and Meldrum’s Evolution and Mormonism.

A section on the “Mountain Meadows Massacre” features a substantial review by Robert Briggs of Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, and an article by the prominent non-Mormon historian William Mackinnon on “The Utah War and Its Mountain Meadows Massacre: Lessons Learned, Surprises Encountered.”

A section entitled “Nibley Studies” includes an essay by Dr. Shirley Ricks, the managing editor of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, on “Hugh Nibley’s Footnotes” and a review essay by Nibley’s long-time friend and colleague Louis Midgley, entitled “The Nibley Legacy.”

There are also a pair of short book notes.

Subscribers will start receiving their copies in the next week or two, I should think, and the texts will be up on the Maxwell Institute website sometime thereafter.


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[_Joey]

Just hated to see a thread on FARMS being "ignored" again.

Happy to do my part to erase the "goose egg" from the comment column!

[_Yoda]

Dan---

Thanks for the update.

Do you have to be a subscriber to view the review on the website?

[_solomarineris]

Just hated to see a thread on FARMS being "ignored" again.

Happy to do my part to erase the "goose egg" from the comment column!

In my humble opinion you are under-estimating this announcement.
I for one am always curious to glance over the paper titles & read the ones pique my interest.
I especially look forward to read MMM paper.
Thanks, DCP.

[_Joey]

Just hated to see a thread on FARMS being "ignored" again.

Happy to do my part to erase the "goose egg" from the comment column!

In my humble opinion you are under-estimating this announcement.
I for one am always curious to glance over the paper titles & read the ones pique my interest.
I especially look forward to read MMM paper.
Thanks, DCP.

See, I brought faster attention to a FARMS thread than the sponsor.

Your welcome sponsor.

[_Jason Bourne]

Dan

I assume this:

A section entitled “Biblical and Mormon Studies” features reviews by Robert White and Gregory Smith of George D. Smith’s Nauvoo Polygamy,

Is the review that you said sheds some interesting light on the polygamy issue. Thing that you said added to your knowledge base of the topic.

Can you confirm?

[_Daniel Peterson]

1.

That's the one. (Specifically, the one by Gregory Smith.)

Of course, I freely confess that early Mormon polygamy hasn't been a significant focus of mine, so it's possible that some who have spent a huge amount of time on the topic won't gain any new insights.

2.

So far as I know, no subscription is required to read the Review on line. It used to be that the most recent issue was restricted to subscribers, but I don't believe that's true any more.

[_Mister Scratch]

Well, I will have to wait for the online edition. It appears that this issue is especially heavy on attack pieces, though, just based on DCP's descriptions. Can you imagine what the Meldrum piece will be like? Also, I am excited to reader Prof. Midgley's obsessed rant against EVs. He has had a hostile obsession with EV critics for decades now.

[_Tom]

I’m pleased to report that FARMS Review 20/2 (2008) has come from the press.

Here’s a brief run-down of the contents:
....
A section called “Mormonism and Science” features an essay by Duane Boyce (“Of Science, Scripture, and Surprise”) responding to Stephens and Meldrum’s Evolution and Mormonism.

I assume that this is the same Duane Boyce who wrote the bizarre "review" of D. Michael Quinn's Extensions of Power. Why do you give him a platform?

[_Daniel Peterson]

I think the Boyce piece on science is extremely interesting.

And I don't share the view that his response to Holy Quinn was lèse majesté, sacrilege, and blasphemy.

Well, I will have to wait for the online edition.

LOL. From what you write (e.g., "attack pieces," "Prof. Midgley's obsessed rant against EVs," etc.) you don't appear to have waited at all.